Class: Grade 7, General Science Unit: From Cell to Organs
Title: White Matter Tissue in the Brain
Before this lesson is implemented all individual education plans will be reviewed and appropriate accommodations and/ or modifications will be made to attend to students' needs.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will participate and learn through conducting activities that investigate and analyze scientific questions.
Students will processes skills in context
By using multiple process skills by way of manipulation, cognitive, and procedural students will better understand new material.
Students will practice science as argument and explanation.
Students will participate in communicating science explanations.
Students will design and and conduct investigations.
Students will be involved in doing investigations in order to develop understanding, ability, values of inquiry and knowledge of science content.
Students will apply the results of experiments to scientific arguments and explanations.
In oder to succeed at this lesson students must manage ideas and information.
Students will engage in public communication of student ideas and work to classmates and teacher.
Students will come to a group-wide conclusion once research has been conducted about what white matter is, it's structure, function, and location through each objective listed above.
Activities and Assignments:
15 Minutes- Take attendance. Go over the major topics covered during the last class. (What the students answered in their group projects.)
15 Minutes- Introduce lesson. Ask students "If they feel like being scientists today?" Explain that they were going to conduct a full investigation while using the Scientific Method .
40 Minutes- Class will participate in class wide project. The problem is a little girl has died from Krabbe's disease, students need to find out why. This worksheet will be presented to each group:
which gives clues as to the little girls condition. Students will be asked to take out a clean piece of paper and conduct the research. They may ask to go to the library and look into books and/or articles, or use computers. They are to neatly title their paper and use the method's steps listed above.
15 Minutes- As students begin to settle down after coming to their conclusions I will ask each group of students to share their answers. I will also ask "How they came to find their answers and what connections they made in terms of looking at previous material." I will be looking for the fact that they had already covered gray matter, so it must have been time to cover white matter. A little investigation into this topic would have revealed a lot about what white matter is, it's function, and why it's called white matter. This would have given students the answer to this problem.
5 Minutes- Collect student work and clean up the remainder materials from the project. Re-emphasize the point of this day's lesson. Give students insight that as of the next class they will no longer be investigating the tissues of the brain but of the brain as a whole organ and it's different structures which aids in its complex function.
Unit: From Cell to Organs
Title: White Matter Tissue in the Brain
Instructional Objectives:
Activities and Assignments:
Materials Needed:
Resources for Lesson:
Krabbe's Disease Website
Other websites pertaining to white matter tissue
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